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pshaw_raven) wrote2021-09-03 07:24 am
pshaw_raven) wrote2021-09-03 07:24 am
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Winds Out of the South
It's weird seeing the photos and video coming in from south Louisiana - I lived in some of those places and they're just ... gone. I worried about that sort of thing happening, obviously, but for it to really happen and just obliterate entire communities is kind of mind blowing. There's nothing, no infrastructure, no homes, no power, no (drinkable) water, no roads. I'm tempted to start searching for news and stuff myself, but I also irrationally feel like it's not really any of my business any more.
The weather is sending lines of thunderstorms across Florida though, and keeping the temps down somewhat. Last night the lightning was messing with the internet radios - it didn't strike a tower or really take anything out but the electromagnetic interference made the net spotty. This was after Fox was telling me about some uptick in solar activity that might make the internet spotty at best, or at worst destroy all technology and life as we know it.
I'm still putting out hummingbird feeders for now, though I think by October they should be gone. We have migratory birds from north of here that pass through, so I leave mine up a bit longer than I probably should. They got sort of gross while I was gone, and one had ants. I replaced the nectar yesterday and we have visitors this morning, but that one feeder may stay down for the season, since the ants will be persistent in trying to get in it. By next spring I should be able to put it back up. I'm also hearing the Red-shouldered Hawks calling a lot in the morning. Yesterday while I was running I heard them shrieking about something both on my way out and the way back, so maybe they were upset about me. Or maybe they just like screaming. AND I have also seen a lot of bear tracks since we got home. The security cameras don't show anything, but I see a lot of prints in the road. Maybe they don't really bother with our house any more since we lock our trash up.
And I finally got my ears stretched up to the sizes I want. I can't go as large with the upper holes as I wanted originally, since when they were pierced in the first place, they kind of placed the piercings too close. But they look pretty cool now that they're all stretched enough to look stretched, and I have a matched set of glass plugs.
War & Peace arrived at a USPS facility in Jax early this morning, so it might be here tomorrow, but more likely next week. I thought about waiting for the beginning of the year to read along with the people doing A Year of W&P but I have never done great in group settings in the past, so I'm going to strike out on my own as soon as it arrives. I got my tape flags and my notebook, I got this. I should get a little trolley for it like Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown but there aren't that many people who would think that's funny. I haven't seen that cartoon in so long now I can't remember if he was just reading it because he procrastinated the whole time, or if he was doing it voluntarily. A major part of the humor in Peanuts was children doing adult things as if they were adults - remember the parents and teachers are just empty air in the comics, and a muted trumpet on TV, so you could argue that there aren't any adults in Peanuts. But anyway, like I said I can't remember if Charlie Brown was assigned W&P for a class (which is funny because it's WAY beyond a kid his age) or if he picked it up for some other reason.
The weather is sending lines of thunderstorms across Florida though, and keeping the temps down somewhat. Last night the lightning was messing with the internet radios - it didn't strike a tower or really take anything out but the electromagnetic interference made the net spotty. This was after Fox was telling me about some uptick in solar activity that might make the internet spotty at best, or at worst destroy all technology and life as we know it.
I'm still putting out hummingbird feeders for now, though I think by October they should be gone. We have migratory birds from north of here that pass through, so I leave mine up a bit longer than I probably should. They got sort of gross while I was gone, and one had ants. I replaced the nectar yesterday and we have visitors this morning, but that one feeder may stay down for the season, since the ants will be persistent in trying to get in it. By next spring I should be able to put it back up. I'm also hearing the Red-shouldered Hawks calling a lot in the morning. Yesterday while I was running I heard them shrieking about something both on my way out and the way back, so maybe they were upset about me. Or maybe they just like screaming. AND I have also seen a lot of bear tracks since we got home. The security cameras don't show anything, but I see a lot of prints in the road. Maybe they don't really bother with our house any more since we lock our trash up.
And I finally got my ears stretched up to the sizes I want. I can't go as large with the upper holes as I wanted originally, since when they were pierced in the first place, they kind of placed the piercings too close. But they look pretty cool now that they're all stretched enough to look stretched, and I have a matched set of glass plugs.
War & Peace arrived at a USPS facility in Jax early this morning, so it might be here tomorrow, but more likely next week. I thought about waiting for the beginning of the year to read along with the people doing A Year of W&P but I have never done great in group settings in the past, so I'm going to strike out on my own as soon as it arrives. I got my tape flags and my notebook, I got this. I should get a little trolley for it like Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown but there aren't that many people who would think that's funny. I haven't seen that cartoon in so long now I can't remember if he was just reading it because he procrastinated the whole time, or if he was doing it voluntarily. A major part of the humor in Peanuts was children doing adult things as if they were adults - remember the parents and teachers are just empty air in the comics, and a muted trumpet on TV, so you could argue that there aren't any adults in Peanuts. But anyway, like I said I can't remember if Charlie Brown was assigned W&P for a class (which is funny because it's WAY beyond a kid his age) or if he picked it up for some other reason.
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eh, no big deal lol :P Hopefully, it doesn't come to that.
Ack - encountering a bear on a run would not be good.
I love the ironic humor of comics & kids' shows & movies that goes right over the heads of the actual kid target audience & is intended for adults. It's as if the creators can't help but add those things akin to them laughing at their own jokes :)
Peanuts has a special place in my memories. Incidentally, why is it called that? Does it refer to a term for kids? I'm probably not cluing into something obvious lol :shrug:
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I've never actually met a bear on a run, happily. I've seen bobcats, deer, and wild turkeys, but never a bear. Actually, one morning a couple of years ago, I was flagged down by a man who lived nearby. He saw me running in the mornings and as he was leaving for work, he spotted the local bear with her cubs, so he wanted to stop and let me know. I turned around and went home, after thanking him, of course. :D
I grew up reading Peanuts comics, and I always kind of enjoyed that humor - I knew that most kids my age weren't going to be able to recite long Bible passages from memory like Linus did, and they certainly weren't quoting Spinoza or Thomas Aquinas. Charlie Brown is a mass of grown-up anxieties and ruminations. Lucy is a straight up sociopath. And then there's Snoopy's whole WWI thing, which could get kind of grim at times.
I think I read somewhere that Schulz wanted to call it "Good Ol' Charlie Brown" but the syndicate didn't like that name. They called it "Peanuts," since that was apparently a popular slang term for children at the time. I would have questioned that, but the book pointed out that around that time, "The Howdy Doody Show" had their famous Peanut Gallery, so odd as it sounds, I guess it was! I have heard people refer to small animals as peanuts, and I seem to recall an uncle who referred to a smaller cousin of mine as "Peanut," but I'd never thought it was so wide spread.
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I'm familiar with 'peanut gallery' so it does make sense. I seem to recall Trinity referring to Uriah as 'peanut' in the early days of her pregnancy because they do resemble them :) I know I've heard of some people called 'peanut heads'. I think the term has fallen out of vogue in general. I find it interesting to learn the origins of things.
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